Two-year-olds will name artifacts by their functions.

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• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  Child Development

• Publication date

  2000-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1111/1467-8624.00228PMID 11108096
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